Episode 28 - Al's House of Lucite
Added 2019-01-03 19:03:11 +0000 UTCIf you'd told us way back in Episode 25 - Meetings About Sonny Hokori, if we'd still be having meetings about Sonny Hokori 150 pages later, we would have thrown the book across the room. And yet, here we are.
We're back after the holiday break (feeling kind of glum, guess we just miss Ogden Swires) with a thorough dive into the second to last section of TEKWAR. Time to question the wisdom of installing cyborg limbs that seem to be weaker than flesh ones, explore the oppressive censorship of the Bishop of Acapulco and meet two strong contenders for Best Characters in the Book. Plus, we'll examine the rise of the Plas industry, and the fall of another, and read some very exciting FanFic that is probably gonna be better than how the book actually ends.
Assignment for next time: finish the damn book!
Comments
So I was relistening to this episode and decided to Google “tumble to it”—somehow, it is an actual verb!! 😮 According to Miriam-Webster it’s British slang: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumble%20to" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumble%20to</a> <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumble_to" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumble_to</a>
Carson Heschle
2019-01-18 09:44:53 +0000 UTCYou know, thinking about that theory that Goulart is striking back at Shatner, that sort of authorial eye-rolling is (potentially) all over the place. Like with the robo-bulls? "Pretty obvious stuff." I mean, there's a LOT of "lampshading" going on here. I have to qualify it as "potential" because I've never read any other Goulart so I don't know if this is really what's going on or just an authorial tic.
Moviegique
2019-01-07 21:54:35 +0000 UTCI just finished this book... as another reader mentioned, the last 10% is a preview of the next book! It just ends!! I don't want to spoil anything yet, but if this isn't a case of "Look Goulart, the book was due last week, just put a period on whatever sentence you're on and ship it, I'm due on the set of Star Trek 6 in two hours!" And please, PLEASE, can we devote a significant amount of podcast time to the acknowledgements after the last page? The first half rivals the entire rest of the book with the level of insult it doles out to us reader's intelligence.
Erika Flowers
2019-01-06 02:14:56 +0000 UTCWeird, that's how some people did on the plasquiz too!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-01-04 00:51:22 +0000 UTCNot positive, but didn't we also have walkramp...?
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-01-04 00:51:06 +0000 UTCTruly heroic research on Luke's part, bravo!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-01-04 00:50:55 +0000 UTCI ended up finishing this last month and...Mike STILL does better at "Real or FanFic?" than I. (Actually, I did better when I hadn't read anything...)
Moviegique
2019-01-04 00:11:38 +0000 UTCI'm posting this here so you folks can see it but it contains some research I did relating to tek vs plas with some very special Ogden news <a href="https://twitter.com/clastowka/status/1080971986061410305" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/clastowka/status/1080971986061410305</a>
Luke Bovard
2019-01-04 00:04:22 +0000 UTCYep. In my notes for this section I didn't even include the context, there was just the sad, lower case word "pedramp" sitting by itself looking glum.
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-01-03 22:05:46 +0000 UTCI'm really glad Mike very briefly brought up "pedramp". There was so much madness in this section that it would've been easy to gloss over the fact that Shatlart made up a brand-new future word to describe a ramp you walk on with your feet.
Elizabeth Foote
2019-01-03 21:43:00 +0000 UTC
